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Feb-1-2005
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Qalandiya, Ar-Ram 1.2.05Observers: Yehudit, Tamar & Zule (reporting)6:30, Ar-RamNot many cars and a few men walking, a smooth and quick passage.7:00, QalandiyaA long queue of vehicels, a new queue is not opened. A few minutesafter we have arrived a new queue was opened and then it took 15minutes per car. The foot queue was absurdly shorter than thehumanitarian queue. Again, after a few minutes after we have arrived afemale soldier was placed in the humanitarian queue and the rateaccelerated.7:30. An ambulance arrives to the checkpoint, we come closer to see if they letit go quickly, the soldiers ask us to stay back and we argue a littleuntil we stay back a few meters. The ambulance is still in the checkpointand now two soldiers who seem very amused and to enjoy our presenceare approaching us and asking us to stay back a few more meteres. Weargue until the ambulance is set free, after 7 minutes.7:50 Ar-Ram, again. We stand in the foot queue, Anton from the DCO goes near the line and orders the adults to go to the humanitarian and faster lane. Later wecompliment him.The usual queue is very slow and every time only one man passes andone soldier is checking. Our identification cards were checked for 10minutes.